Method of manufacturing clothes pegs of wire



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, fi.' mb* Patented July 12, 1927.

UNITED srarss WILHELM RAPPEL, OE

insane' OPPENHEIM, GERMANY.

METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CLOTHES PEG-S OF WIRE.

Application led October 30,;1926, Serial No.

The method according to the invention makes i-t possible toA make clothes-pegs ot Wire, the free end of the one tl-shaped arm oi the Wire being bent upward again and forming a handle, same as thefree end ot the other arm of the Wire which projects through the b-arms. y V

The invention is characterized in that'the erds'ot a straight piece otwire are at first wound to form each one eye saidA eyes being directed in opposite directions, whereupon arms are formed by bending the Wire at right angles at a certain distance from the ends. rlhe front portions ot these arms are #bent again, that of the one arm at right angles inwardly and that of the other arm at an obtuse angle outwardly. The web between the arms is then Wound to several spirals so that the innerends of the arms come into Contact the onevWith the other, Whreupon oneot the arms is bent in UT shape over the other arm so that the bead ot this other arm projects from between the arms ot the il, formed by the first mentioned arm.

The new manui''acturing` method is illus- Y trated, by Way ot example, in the accompanying` drawing in which l i w wire from which n 1g'. l shows the piece 0 a. clothes peg; has to be made. l

'Figs 2, 8, ft, 5, 6, 7 and 8 show each the Wire after vone of the successive Working,` phases.

Theends of the piece of Wire o are bent to 'form each an .eye 1, b2 respectively (F 2) said eyes being turned in opposite directions. In the secondv phase the Wire a is bent at 5l and d2 at right angles so that at the one end straight arm al and at the o 4 other end an arm 1s formed the inner portion @.3 ot which is straight, the outer end portion afl beingbent outward at an obtuse angle (Fig. 3). The front portion ot arm el 1s 145,283, and in Germany November 17, 1925.

bent again at right angles to form an arm L2 which isparallel to the web a (Fig. t). ln the 7'fourth phase the arm a2 is bent further towards the web and slightlyv out of Vthe plane in which the other parts of the Wire are situated (Fig. The fifth Working phase consists in Winding the Web a to form a double spiral A (Fig. 6)k so that the'points a" C52 at which the arms begin come into contact the one With the other. In the sixth Working` phase the arms are crossed (Fig. 7) and in the seventh Working phase the arm al is bent at kabout half'its length in ii-shape Aover the bend d2 of the other arm (Fig. S). The arms a2, at form then the handles to be compressed "for opening` the clothes peg.

The bending of the straight Wires a is carried out mechanically and continuously by feeding one Wire a' after the other into the bending` mechanism. V

I Vclaim Y A method of manufacturing' clothes pegs ot wire, comprising rolling the ends of a straight piece of Wire into eyes turned in opposite direction, bending said Wire at right angles to form two straight arms, in bending` the outer end portion oi one of said arms outwardly at an obtuse angle, bending the outer end portion o the straight arm to form an armv parallel to the Web, bending said parallel arm towards said web and slightly out of the plane in Which said Web is situated, Windingsaid Web to 'form tiro '-ils so that the bends at which the arms touch one another, and bending` said st eht arm at halrn its length in icl-shape over the bend at which the other arm begins, S0 so that said eyes form the handles ot-the clothes peg' which are to be compressed to open the clothes peg.

n testimony Whereot' lt affix my signature.

WILHELM Harrer. 

